Legal Research on Absentee Voting
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January 1, 1983 - January 1, 1983
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Case Files, Bozeman & Wilder Working Files. Legal Research on Absentee Voting, 1983. b8250a31-f092-ee11-be37-6045bdeb8873. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/41ead768-e013-43d2-b212-bef8f62ce690/legal-research-on-absentee-voting. Accessed December 04, 2025.
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s u-10'18. lfillfutly refusing to perform duties as to absentee voti
Any person who shall willfully fail or refuse to perform or discharEe anv dutvrequired of him in-this- chapter shall be guilty of " -i.a"*""r8i?a, "iconviction, shall be fined not more thanglgd.-oo. lects rgib, lro. zs, p. zo;i.t"
1919, No. 620, p. 862; Code 1929, S BgBg; Code fgaO, t. fi, S BSB.)
S 17-f0-19. Voter making false oath.
Any absentee voter who shall willfully make or subscribe to an oath falsely
in order to-qualify hims^elf to vote at a primary or general election as an absenteevoter shall be guilty tp"rlrrw. (Acts r919,-1ro.-zr, p. ?0; Acts 191g No. 620,p. 862; Code 1923, 5 39Bg; Code 1940, T.lI-, E gS4.)
S 17'10-20. Probatejudges volunteering suggestions as to ballots for absent
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|ny proba-te jgdge who sends any bailots or makes any suggestions inreference to furnishing ballots for absintee voters, .*."pt upon the application
or request of the absent voter himself, shall be grirry oi, ilirde*ean;". aA.;
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